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Realistic Fiction
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Stories that could really happen.
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Baskin, Nora Raleigh Runt Maggie hates how Elizabeth acts so much better than everyone else. Besides, she's always covered in dog hair. And she smells. So Maggie creates a fake profile on a popular social networking site to teach Elizabeth a lesson. What makes a bully, and what makes a victim? 2013 Children's Fiction Book |
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Buyea, Rob Because of Mr. Terupt Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill School in Connecticut relate how their lives are changed for the better by "rookie teacher" Mr. Terupt. 2010 Children's Fiction Book |
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Clements, Andrew Trouble-maker When his older brother gets in serious trouble, sixth-grader Clay decides to change his own mischief-making ways, but he cannot seem to shake his reputation as a troublemaker. 2011 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Clifton, Lutricia Freaky Fast Frankie Joe Twelve-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby, forced to live with the father he never knew, a stepmother, and four half-brothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas, not realizing he is making a better life for himself than he ever had with her. 2012 Children's Fiction Book |
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Davies, Jacqueline The Lemonade War Evan Treski is people-smart. He is good at talking with people. His younger sister, Jessie, on the other hand, is math-smart, but not especially good at understanding people. She knows that feelings are her weakest subject. So when their lemonade war begins, there really is no telling who will win. 2007 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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DiCamillo, Kate Because of Winn-Dixie Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie. 2000 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Dowell, Frances O'Roark. The Second Life of Abigail Walker Bullied by two mean girls in her sixth-grade class, a lonely, plump girl gains self-confidence and makes new friends after a mysterious fox gently bites her. 2012 Children's Fiction Book |
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Draper, Sharon Out of My Mind Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time. 2010 Children's Fiction Book |
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Frazier, Sundee Tucker The other Half of My Heart Eleven-year-old twin daughters of interracial parents, have very different skin tones and personalities, but it is not until their grandmother enters them in the Miss Black Pearl Pre-Teen competition that red-haired and pale-skinned Minna realizes what life in their small town has been like for her more outgoing, darker-skinned sister. 2010 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Gantos, Jack I Am Not Joey Pigza Joey's father returns, calling himself Charles Heinz and apologizing for his past bad behavior, and he swears that once Joey and his mother change their names and help him fix up the old diner he has bought, their lives will change for the better. 2007 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Giff, Patricia Reilly Pictures of Hollis Woods A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her. 2002 Children's Fiction Book GIFF Other formats available |
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Hannigan, Katherine True (--sort Of) For most of her eleven years, Delly has been in trouble without knowing why, until her little brother, R.B., and a strange, silent new friend, Ferris, help her find a way to be good--and happy--again. 2011 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Hartnett, Sonya Sadie and Ratz Hannah and her hands, named Sadie and Ratz, regularly get into trouble, especially when younger brother Baby Boy is around. 2012 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Henkes, Kevin Junonia The week of her tenth birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year, but this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come, which unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they alway are. 2011 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Horvath, Polly One Year in Coal Harbor In a small fishing village in British Columbia, twelve-year-old Primrose tries to be a matchmaker for her Uncle Jack, befriends Ked, a new foster child, tries to decide if she is willing to go to jail for her convictions, and together with Ked, publishes a cook book to raise money for the Fisherman's Aid. 2012 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Hunt, Lynda Mullaly One for the Murphys After heartbreaking betrayal, Carley is sent to live with a foster family and struggles with opening herself up to their love. 2013 Children's Fiction Book |
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Kehret, Peg Runaway Twin Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington, to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three. 2009 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Kent, Rose Rocky Road Fashion-loving twelve-year-old Tess moves with her deaf younger brother and impulsive single mother to Schenectady, New York, where they open an ice-cream shop and lead a campaign for urban renewal. 2010 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Korman, Gordon Ungifted Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school. 2012 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Lean, Sarah A Dog Called Homeless Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates. 2012 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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